Baofeng Baofeng UV-5R-3 not comunicating with Chirp.

[Hans13]

A friend of mine really likes this radio and uses it everyday. He also swears by this tri-band antenna from Anytone...

AT-3318UV-E Replacement Antenna (tri-band)

If memory serves me correctly, he had to use an O-ring to take up some slack in the connection.

 

[Pointer111]

Tom nd5y - thanks, I actually did have the daily build installed, mistakenly called it "last stable".

John KD8DVR, thank you very much, your tip was the silver bullet! I had not even thought to look for MTC, since the radio is clearly labeled Baofeng. But I looked as you said, and there it was. Download from radio worked perfectly on the first try. After several days of trying to figure it out, and getting no reply (so far) on where to find the UV_5R_P3 software, was almost ready to spend the $50 at RTS. For the savings, would buy you a beer if I could! Again, many thanks. 73 de KV7I Dave

 

[K5MPH]

A friend of mine really likes this radio and uses it everyday. He also swears by this tri-band antenna from Anytone...

AT-3318UV-E Replacement Antenna (tri-band)

If memory serves me correctly, he had to use an O-ring to take up some slack in the connection.

Thanks for the link i have been looking for a low cost tri-band antenna.....

 

[KD8DVR]

Tom nd5y - thanks, I actually did have the daily build installed, mistakenly called it "last stable".

John KD8DVR, thank you very much, your tip was the silver bullet! I had not even thought to look for MTC, since the radio is clearly labeled Baofeng. But I looked as you said, and there it was. Download from radio worked perfectly on the first try. After several days of trying to figure it out, and getting no reply (so far) on where to find the UV_5R_P3 software, was almost ready to spend the $50 at RTS. For the savings, would buy you a beer if I could! Again, many thanks. 73 de KV7I Dave

I don't know why they went with "MTC". Perhaps, it is an MTC-exclusive radio, I don't know. This is a rather common question.... the radio is easily missed. I use the BTECH UV-5X3, which while more expensive, has several more features. Either way, they are a less costly entry into 220 capability.

 

[WB9JNZ]

Baofeng uv 5R-3 programing problem

I have the MTC Baofeng UV 5R-3 and just tried to program it with the MTC UV UR-3 in the setting for the radio. I only get an error message and it will not read from the radio. It will read vhf and uhf with it set to Baofeng uv 5r, but will not load or recognize 220. I see that the latest daily build for Chirp is Oct. 18, 2018. Is there a later version yet? It seems that the Oct. 18th build does not work. I see some previous postings that the problem programing the Baofeng uv 5R-3 was solved. Could someone help me understand how people are programing the radio or has the latest version not been released yet?

Thanks

 

[nd5y]

I see that the latest daily build for Chirp is Oct. 18, 2018. Is there a later version yet?

No. The latest current version is always the one listed at:
https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/

 

[kd2hcu]

I have the MTC Baofeng UV 5R-3 and just tried to program it with the MTC UV UR-3 in the setting for the radio. I only get an error message and it will not read from the radio. It will read vhf and uhf with it set to Baofeng uv 5r, but will not load or recognize 220. I see that the latest daily build for Chirp is Oct. 18, 2018. Is there a later version yet? It seems that the Oct. 18th build does not work. I see some previous postings that the problem programing the Baofeng uv 5R-3 was solved. Could someone help me understand how people are programing the radio or has the latest version not been released yet?

Thanks

I just tried to program the uv-5rx3 with chirp. It partially worked using uv-5r but won't do the 220-225 band, says its out of range. Seems like I get a lot of radio won't respond messages when trying to hook it up.

 

[KD8DVR]

I just tried to program the uv-5rx3 with chirp. It partially worked using uv-5r but won't do the 220-225 band, says its out of range. Seems like I get a lot of radio won't respond messages when trying to hook it up.

The UV-5RX3 is a Radioddity radio. Look under "Radioddity" and you will see your model there.

 

[aircatheavy]

I have several UV-5R models. But I've had them all for about 4 or 5 years now.
Just downloaded CHIRP today (Jan 13, 2019) and it worked with mine.

Note: it did now work with my existing PL3203 driver. I had to remove and re-install the latest PL3202 driver.

 

[N3XHS]

I have several UV-5R models. But I've had them all for about 4 or 5 years now.
Just downloaded CHIRP today (Jan 13, 2019) and it worked with mine.

Note: it did now work with my existing PL3203 driver. I had to remove and re-install the latest PL3202 driver.

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I have several UV-5R models. But I've had them all for about 4 or 5 years now.
Just downloaded CHIRP today (Jan 13, 2019) and it worked with mine.

Note: it did now work with my existing PL3203 driver. I had to remove and re-install the latest PL3202 driver.

I have one and I used the radioditty uv5rx3 radio to program mine and it works great

 

[DylanMadigan]

I have had issues with several Baofeng/Retevis radios communicating. Its always either been the drivers or the plug to the radio.

Make sure when you plug in the USB/serial adapter cable, you see a Com port show up in device manager. I think this was one of the adapters where i had to install backdated prolific drivers but i cant quite remember (sorry). You should see a com port show up and not a new USB with an error flag.

The other issue has been that the connectors don't always fit right. The included cable works for all but two of my radios. I got a cable one day with multiple plugs (for various brands) that didn't work with my radios at first, come to find out it actually works fine with the two radios that the included cable does not work with.

 

[N3XHS]

For the boating uv5rthreebander you use the newest chirp program to program it and the radio program you use is the radioditty uv5rx3 to program the radio

 

[ve4ua]

I just bought a UV5RIII, according to bottom of radio, so a UV5R-3....My CHIRP did not work either for the 220 frequencies, so I emailed my seller, who sent me software. I will be trying that out tonight, as I had to figure out how to change it from Chinese to English first......